Urban Gardens

Artist Barry Lungu’s painting of Jacarand trees in bloom in Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Artgal.online.

Art and beauty live in physical landmarks and museums and also in the expressions of natural wonders, culture, history, and creativity that local artists bring … Read More...

Diana Robinson, Flickr, Licensed by Creative Commons.

Contemplating tulips conjures images of Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, and blue Delft pottery, which makes sense because the Netherlands produces 90 percent of the world’s tulips–4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually on about 27,182 … Read More...

Photo: Jenny Pore. Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

For about three weeks every year, cascades of brilliant orange nasturtiums spill down from the Venetian balconies in the courtyard at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Photo: Jenny … Read More...

Longwood Gardens Topiary Garden. Image via Longwood Gardens.

Edward Scissorhands had nothing on the horticultural artists who painstakingly sculpt topiaries in some of North America’s most spectacular topiary gardens. Come along with us on a virtual tour to experience some … Read More...